The PhotoHunt theme this week is “Sweet” I can’t think of anything much sweeter than the Macaroons I baked for Passover. These wonderfully chewy almond and coconut drop cookies are so easy to make and keep so well, you should make them all year-round! Chocolate Macaroons Ingredients: 1 2/3 cups blanched almonds (about 8…
Recipe Monday: Passover Rolls
Continuing yesterday’s discussion, I said that we’re not permitted to eat any yeast-raised breads during Passover. But we all still have to go to work and the kids have to go to school, so what are we supposed to do about lunch? I remember, as a kid, having to go to school with sandwiches made…
Passover: A Preface and a Sponge Cake
Passover starts tomorrow (Monday) night, beginning a week of probably the most food-centric holiday on the Jewish calendar. To mark the passing of our ancestors from bondage to freedom, and the haste in which that was accomplished (read your Exodus, people… No, the Bible, not the Leon Uris novel!), we are prohibited from…
